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Miss Manners, January 9 2024: "I Saw My Neighbor Pee in his Yard."
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Miss Manners, January 9 2024: "I Saw My Neighbor Pee in his Yard."

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Miss Manners, January 9 2024: "I Saw My Neighbor Pee in his Yard."
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Link to the original letter here.

My take: To recap, apparently peeping over the backyard fence, the LW say her neighbor peeing in his yard. His wife was away. “As a woman and a feminist,” the LW is outraged. Should she rat him out to his wife?

Miss Manners delivers the answer.

Chance this letter is fake: Some chance of that, actually, because the woman is…

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